We offer three different options for bulk purchases of the books published by Into: digital bulk sales, buying a digital archiving licence and buying
a printed book co-publishing licence.
Please note that these offers do not apply to books published by other publishing houses, even when single volumes of them are sold in our bookshop.
Digital bulk sales via ‘tokens’
This model works best with organizations who would like to donate a certain e-book to their workers or members. Or who would like to give the book as a gift to their associates.
If an organization purchases 1,000 copies of a book, it will get a CSV file containing a computer-generated list of 1,000 access codes.
Each of these codes provides a permanent access to the e-book.
The exact bulk sale price and the percentage of the reduction depend on the number of the books bought and on the country. Into has a policy of selling it’s non-fiction books with a very affordable price for universities, libraries, non-governmental organizations and companies operating in the global south. In such cases we can sell for example 1,000 Baobab & Marula books with the price of euro 1,000, only (plus tax).
The buyer can then either distribute the codes for end users free, or sell them.
The e-book adjusts to all kinds of reading devices so it can be read by laptops, by cell phones and by Kindle-like readers. However, it cannot be copied.
Digital archiving licence
An university, a polytechnic school, an engineering college or a library can purchase a permanent archiving licence for an Into book by euro 1,500 (including taxes). After that the library or the other institute can load the material into its archives, so that it can be accessed by anybody who has the password for the archive. The book will then be freely accessible for all present and future students and teachers of that institution.
If the university or other school has several different colleges or campuses and several different libraries, a single licence will give all of them the right to use the archived material of the book. The same policy applies also to all the different branches of the same municipal library.
If the university, library or other education facility has a system preventing the copying of the e-book, the whole book can be loaded into the archives as a single file.
When the institution does not apply encryption preventing copying of the material, the material will be delivered as separate pdf articles. All the book will be there, but every chapter as a separate pdf file.
The option of digital archiving licences was first proposed for us by Namibian librarians who emphasized the importance of open access to scientific or otherwise very valuable material.
Print co-publishing licence
We also offer universities, polytechnic shcools and other facilities of higher learning, or their own printing and publishing houses, the possibiity to buy a co-publishing licence for a printed book.
With euro 1 500 (including taxes) the university printing house can get a permanent licence to print an unlimited number of the book, to be given or sold to its teachers and students, or to other customers.
The printing house will get all the material of the book – written, edited, proof-read, pictures, lay-out – wired as a print-ready pdf or indesign files. It only has to add its name in the book as the co-publisher and cover the printing costs.
We think this is the best way to make important books and content available, with an affordable price, also in their printed form in regions to which mailing costs are outrageously high. For example, it costs 27–60 euros to mail a single book from Europe to Nigeria, depending on the speed of delivery. Whereas printing a book in Nigeria only costs a few euros, even when the book has hundreds of pages and when 4-colour printing and a relatively expensive paper must be used.
Non-university publishers can purchase a slightly more expensive license to sell the book in the area of a whole country.
